elsewhere

CEFRB1

/ˌɛlsˈʍɛə/

adverb · noun

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01
adverb
In or to another place.
02
adverb
Extra detail
Synonym of somewhere else: in, at, or to some other place.

Examples

Could there be intelligent life elsewhere in the universe?
I can't find my notebook here; I must have put it elsewhere.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 3
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 4
Synonyms: 1

Also pronounced

[ˈɛls(h)weːɹ]
/ˌɛlsˈwɛə/

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noun

Extra meaning

Synonym of somewhere else: a place other than here.

More examples

In context

He decided to seek information elsewhere.
If you won’t serve us, we’ll go elsewhere.
These particular trees are not to be found elsewhere.

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Oh, had we some bright little isle of our own, / In a blue summer ocean far off and alone; / [...] / Where simply to feel that we breathe, that we live, / Is worth the best joys that life elsewhere can give.
[1850?], Thomas Moore, “Had We Some Bright Little Isle of Our Own”, in W[illiam] M[ark] Clark, compiler, Clark’s Orphean Warbler. Containing a Choice Collection of Nearly Two Thou...
We are back on the Ligurian coast, from which vertigos push human beings toward all kinds of elsewheres.
2000, Angela M Jeannet, Under the radiant sun and the crescent moon: Italo Calvino's storytelling
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2012, page 162
Many monuments sold in the US are crafted from granite produced in China, India and elsewhere overseas, while a lot of stone-working equipment comes from Europe.
2022 February 21, Tami Luhby, “Headstone makers struggle to serve grieving families as supply chain woes continue”, in CNN, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2025

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Origin

adverb

From Middle English elswher, from Old English elles hwǣr and elles hwerġen (“elsewhere”); corresponding with else + where. Cognate with Old High German alleswār (“elsewhere”), whence Middle High German alleswā, alswā (“elsewhere”).